Title: A Comment on the Use of the Term Emergent Properties
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SaltPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 113, Number 1Jan., 1979 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/283370 Views: 26Total views on this site Citations: 85Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1979 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Lillian R Aoki, Margaret Mars Brisbin, Alexandria G Hounshell, Dustin W Kincaid, Erin I Larson, Brandon J Sansom, Arial J Shogren, Rachel S Smith, Jenna Sullivan-Stack Preparing Aquatic Research for an Extreme Future: Call for Improved Definitions and Responsive, Multidisciplinary Approaches, BioScience 72, no.66 (May 2022): 508–520.https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac020Julien Delord Beyond the limit: carrying capacity (K) and the holism/reductionism debate, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43, no.33 (Jul 2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00440-4Rüdiger Ortiz-Álvarez, Héctor Ortega-Arranz, Vicente J. 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